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I really wish that Snappy would die, and that Canonical would spend their resources developing and integrating with Flatpak instead. I use Ubuntu as my primary

I really wish that Snappy would die, and that Canonical would spend their resources developing and integrating with Flatpak instead. I use Ubuntu as my primary OS, and as the primary OS for workstations and servers at my work, but I don't think Canonical is a good owner of software projects. Mir was a huge waste of resources that was destined to die since Wayland had so much support. I don't see Snappy doing much better in the long run.

brudgers 7y ago
Flatpak and Snap serve different purposes. Snaps are designed for transparent installation on Ubuntu. Flatpak's milestone 1.0 doesn't directly support the current Ubuntu LTS (18.04). It would be irresponsible for Canonical to rely on Flatpak given their respective priorities. I can understand Flatpak's rationales for technical decisions. Ubuntu users are not in Flatpak's target audience.